Improvement in head-measure for hatters



i `waited tutea @AH-lit 4'nonnen BONHAM, ONPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Lam Patent No. 105,895, and august 2, 1870.

nuzsuzo.vrai/1r'.NT`I1`v Heen-MEASURE: ron HATTERS.

T11-e Schedule referred to in ese'Lettexs Patent and making of the name.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, Hormon BONHAM, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

`have-invented a new and improved Gcphalic-Meter';

and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full,

. clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in `which-#- Figure l is a perspective view, and Figures 2 and 3 sectional elevations of two different constructions of my meter. I

. The object `had in view in making this invention was the production of Van apparatus by which to take the exact outline of the human head, for the purpose of facilitating the fitting 'ofhat-s.

The invention consists of a band of lead or such other material as can be readily bent'to conform to" the shape of the head, and such as retains any form which `may ybe given it, such bandbeing covered with leather and combined with a socket furnished with' a set-screw, and attached to4 one end of the band,.and

with a graduated tonguefastened to the other end of the band, which tongue enters the socket and may be clamped therein by the set-screw, sogas to retain the measurements after they have been obtained.

In the-drawingv a is the leadeu hand. 1 1 the leather covering.

c themetallic socket, attached lto one end of ther covering b. I

d the graduated tongue, fastened ,to the opposite end of the leather covering. l

In iig. 2 the leather covering merely incloses the leaden band, but in fig. 3 the leather covering extends above the leaden band, so as to form au upper leather hand, e, which is fastened together at its top edge by binding:

After the baud has been fitted to the head it is to he placed on paper, andthe shape traced along its inneredge with a pencil.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s- Y, l The band a, of lead or other ilexible metal, `coml bined with the covering b, socket c, and graduated tongue d, substantally'as and for the purpose specified. e

HORACE BONHAM. Witnesses:

Jos. T. FONT, OHAs. T. Tanna 

